A then neighbour of the Hertz family sent several letters to his family in 1942 reporting on the deportations.
13 December 1942:
'Early this week we received word from the Jacobson family. They were then at Camp Westerbork with the Hertz family. First they had spent a week in a Jewish Council shelter in The Hague. They were doing well, under the circumstances, but they asked for food. We sent them…